Mission
The Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture acquires, preserves, and provides access to published and unpublished materials that reflect the public and private lives of women throughout history. Our center, housed at the Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Duke University, makes these materials available to a growing number of researchers from around the world.
History
In 1988, author and feminist activist Sallie Bingham endowed a women's studies archivist position in the Special Collections Library, now known as the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library, to coordinate acquisition, cataloguing, reference and outreach activities related to materials documenting women and gender. The Center was permanently endowed in 1993 and was named the "Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture" in 1999 in honor of Bingham.
Holdings
The Bingham Center preserves a broad range of women’s history materials with a focus on the following topics:
- artistic expression
- Black women and women of color
- feminist theory and activism
- gender identity and expression
- religion and faith communities
- reproductive health and rights
- sexuality
- work
- zines
Learn more about our collections through our Research Guides.
Support
The Bingham Center is grateful for the generosity of private benefactors, whose donations support our collecting mission and greater access to collections through outreach, processing, and public programs. We have received most of our holdings as gifts or have acquired them with the support of our donors. We welcome inquiries from individuals and representatives of organizations about contributing to the Center’s holdings or supporting our programs in other ways. To make a financial contribution to support our unique collections, programming, and high quality access to materials, you can donate online. Read more about how you can support the Bingham Center.
Contact
Please see our staff page for contact information or submit a question online through our email form.
